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Join CUSP for Science and the City Hackfest

New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress is proud to sponsor the “Science and the City,” a hackfest dedicated to science for cities, in collaboration with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre.

Topics range from tracking your trash, measuring the carbs in a restaurant meal, preparing for the next hurricane and even putting New York in space. Pitch your own project*, or join a team. Come for a few hours, a whole day or the entire weekend. Doors open from 9am to 11pm each day. Project pitches at 10am each day.

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CUSP is a unique public-private research center that uses New York City as its laboratory and classroom to help cities around the world become more productive, livable, equitable, and resilient. CUSP observes, analyzes, and models cities to optimize outcomes, prototype new solutions, formalize new tools and processes, and develop new expertise/experts. These activities will make CUSP the world’s leading authority in the emerging field of “Urban Informatics.”